KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 — Share prices on Bursa Malaysia remained steady at mid-morning spurred by buying interest across the board.
At 11am, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) was 8.41 points better at 1,789.66 points after opening 0.52 of-a-point lower at 1,780.73 points.
Leading the top gainers list, United Plantations surged 38 sen to RM25.98, British American Tobacco soared 24 sen to RM60.64 and Nestle rose 20 sen to RM67.48.
Meanwhile, Maybank added 11 sen to RM9.69, TNB gained 4.0 sen to RM11.20 and CIMB inched up 5.0 sen to RM6.89.
Among actives were KNM Group, which gained as much as 5.26 per cent or 3.0 sen to 60 sen, and Green Packet garnered half-a-sen to 45.5 sen.
Market breadth was positive as gainers outpaced losers 361 to 145, with 221 counters unchanged, 877 untraded and 30 others suspended.
Turnover totalled 500.09 million shares worth RM451.65 million.
On the scoreboard, the Finance Index rose 113.29 points to 16,399.76 points, the Plantation Index garnered 47.71 points to 8,410.24 points and the Industrial Index was 13.31 points lower at 3,043.83 points.
The FBM Emas Index added 57.85 points to 12,362.51 points, the FBMT100 Index rose 53.06 points to 12,079.39 points, the FBM 70 was up 45.77 points to 13,654.09 points and the FBM Ace increased 49.89 points to 5,873.33 points. — Bernama
